By Liz Fields
Legendary high-end fashion-show hairstylist, Guido Palau has shocked fashion critics by branding Kim Kardashian's the iconic beauty of her time.
"Kim Kardashian is how loads of women want to look," said Palau. "It's a very important style statement, and that will go into my library of style and I will take that somewhere."
"In 20 years' time that we're going to look back at and go, 'That's what it was like'," he said.
Palau says that the"real" Kardashian is at the forefront of cultural beauty trends, complete with faux tan and lasciviously long locks, has a lot of young women following suit.
"Kim Kardashian wakes up with a tan face, but she's a big inspiration to a lot of women," he says. "They become experts and they put on that amount of makeup and curl their hair like that, just to go out."
But Kim the new Marilyn? "Beauty is a cultural statement, but it really hits home in those periods we look back on: the '50s with Marilyn Monroe, the '70s with Farrah Fawcett, all of these major, iconic women. It's not just by chance that that image of her hair is so in our psyche," he said.
"Kim Kardashian and that type of girl will be that for now. That's what's going on, this played-out idea of beauty — that's really beauty. So that's what I'm aware of, and try to bring into my world."
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